Music is not dead, but some of it is a zombie. In order for music to be dead it would have to cease being created, but it continues to fill the air waves and the ear buds. An argument could be made that good music is dead, but even this would be a weak argument at best. There has never been, and hopefully never will be, a day when the music dies. Music is more than simply what is heard, music is what is felt, when a song is played. There are still a lot of good songs being written, but it seems that there are even more bad songs. What you feel when the bad songs play, the zombie songs, is that you’ve heard it before and if you aren’t careful it will eat your brains!

Today the radio, which translates to bandwidth instead of air waves, is full of pop songs spanning multiple genres of music. Once unique, various genres of music have now melded into their true roots on one hand and the popular version on the other. If there was a day when the music died, it would be the day when pop-rock, pop-country, and every other pop-hyphen were invented. But music is not dead; it is simply zombified in some cases, as stated above. Popular music takes bits of the songs that represent the true genre and attempts to reanimate them into more streamlined, watered down versions of their predecessors. A pop-rock song sounds like a rock song, but it is missing some of the power, emotion and depth of a true rock song. It is like the original, but it is missing vitality.

A zombie is like a person, but it is missing vitality. Now the connection is made clear. Chord progressions and riffs will be repeated in songs, there is no way around that, but the zombie songs don’t even try to make the line their own. They simply mimic, note for note, cliché lyric for cliché lyric, the original songs that stood on their own as monoliths of a generation. Zombie songs can’t stand on their own, they slouch and slump and drag their way through people’s ears. There is no longevity to a zombie, ever decomposing in its quest for human brains. And yet there is a market for zombie music, created by a generation of social zombies, socially networked and up to date on the latest trends, but barely able to generate a unique idea.

The day the music dies, if it ever rolls around, will be the day when there are no more creative minds left. When there are no more fingers prepared to pen thought provoking, emotionally charged lyrics, or build driving drum beats, or invoke involuntary head nodding with electric guitar riffs. This is the only way to defeat the zombies, and the fate of all music is in the hands of the rising generation. Music is more than entertainment, it is the pulse of mankind.

*yawn* is the write-up over. Could've fooled me

Not overly great. Just there